Course description
A fundamental understanding of vehicle ride and handling behaviour and the practical implications for chassis and suspension design.
This course provides a fundamental understanding of vehicle ride and handling behaviour and links this understanding to the practical implications for chassis and suspension design.Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
The course is intended for those practising engineers and technologists who already have a general understanding of vehicle dynamics and who now wish to develop their knowledge, in particular to the design and development of suspensions, tyres and chassis systems.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
- Vehicle ride – an understanding of modelling, analysis and practical issues.
- Vehicle handling – an understanding of modelling, analysis and practical issues.
- Tyres – force and moment properties and tyre modelling approaches.
- Suspension kinematics and compliances – theoretical background and practical measuring schemes.
- Suspension design – an overview of suspension design properties and review of current design philosophy.
- Case studies – introduction to modelling and simulation software and discussion of practical case studies.
Training Course Content
Core content
Vehicle Ride
- Quarter / half / full car model
- Suspension design optimisation
- Design guidelines / conflicts
- Ride measurements
- Human response to vibration, ISO standards
- Springs, non linear effects, bump stops
- Damper properties, non linear properties
Vehicle Handling
- Development of 2 dof model
- Understeer / oversteer
- Steady state cornering, stability, frequency response
- Transient, limiting manoeuvres
- Straight running stability, aerodynamics effects, neutral steer point
- Effect of vehicle / suspension design properties
- C.g. position, tyre size, load transfer, camber, compliances
- Effects of braking, traction
Tyres
- Mechanism of force generation
- Study of typical force / moment data
- Review of tyre models
Suspension Kinematics and Compliances
- Role of the suspension
- Kinematics, wheel motion control
- Forces transmitted
- Roll centres, anti-dive and anti-squat properties
- MIRA K&C rig; Review of other rigs
Suspension Design
- Review of typical designs
- Current design trends
- Practical implications
Course delivery details
Course structure
This three-day course will consist of a mix of lectures from both academic and industrial specialists in vehicle dynamics and suspension technology, ride and drive activities on a test track and a hands-on session of the use of modelling and simulation tools for case studies. All delegates will receive a Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course.
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